The parliamentary opposition are running scared.
It is not Boris Johnson they fear, it is the anger of the working class.
Nobody is taken in by the parliamentary shenanigans. We can all see the opposition are afraid of calling a general election. They produce one excuse after another.
The Labour Party blame the Illiberal Undemocrats; we will only call a vote of confidence when we are confident we can win it, they say, and with Jo Swinson so adamantly opposed to supporting a caretaker Corbyn PM, the Labour MP’s absolve themselves of responsibility.
The ‘Bollocks to Brexit’ Party, for their part, refuse to back Jeremy Corbyn as a caretaker PM because, they say, he ‘cannot command a majority in the House’. Well, of course he cannot when rabid anti-socialists like Swinson will not give their support. Jo Swinson pledged she would do everything in her power to stop Brexit. But in the words of the Meatloaf song, ‘she won’t do THAT!’
So with the second and third biggest English parties in the House of Commons at loggerheads it falls to the SNP to ‘hold their noses’ and agree to support a Corbyn caretaker government. This puts pressure on Swinson and her socio-phobia (fear of left wing politics) on the spot.
Those of us looking at this from the outside can see these manoeuvrings for what they are – pure farce. If you want a general election the solution is simple. Agree to support a temporary Corbyn government for a very minimal time, days not weeks, and in pursuit of a very minimal objective – to dissolve parliament and call a general election. If Corbyn agrees that he will limit his role to that single task there is no reason for the yellow party to say no.
But the opposition parties will do that. And we all know why. Because they are afraid of a general election.
The Illiberals have 18 MP’s, but only 12 of them were elected as Liberals. Swinson’s bragadocio at her conference, her arrogance in even considering she could sweep the board and form a majority government, would be exposed for the ravings of a deluded megalomaniac.
The Labour Party would struggle to keep traditional working-class Labour-voting seats when millions of Leave voters refuse to turn out for the now obviously Remain party.
Only the SNP stand to gain. Hence their readiness to hold their noses and support Corbyn.
The cowardice of the opposition is not just about fear of electoral losses. They fear the wrath of a working class who voted to Leave and have listened to 3 years of nonsense about why Leave is not possible.
It is possible. And the electorate are not as gullible as the politicians would like to think. They believe that, if they hold the media spotlight, rant about ‘Crash Outs’, ‘cliff edges’ and ‘catastrophes’, then the public will be convinced. They believe that holding the media spotlight is the same thing as convincing intelligent electors of their arguments.
They are deluded.